Spherical Segment Flat pattern

[JWayman]

So here we have a segment of a Terry's Chocolate Orange**, but made hollow in sheet metal. I need a flat pattern. I am at a loss to figure out how to model it so that I can produce a flat pattern. Any ideas?

Thanks,

John


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** a delicious item of confectionery, especially popular at Christmas-time, comprising segments arranged around a central spine, the whole approximating to a sphere of orange-infused chocolate.

John Wayman, C.Eng, FIED
Senior Mechanical Engineer

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[mathew.palazola]

I believe you would have to model it in sheetmetal using create form.

[dgschaefer]

So it's like an orange wedge, but the curved side is cylindrical nor
spherical, right?



What surfaces do you need?  What I see below is a fully enclosed wedge,
that's going to have to be multiple parts in sheet metal, so what
surfaces do you need?



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[#4]

How are you going to manufacture it? If you are doing a deep draw then
you will have a different flat than a form. Just how much forming are
you going to do? Any partial rips?



~Dan